Family Stories

Family Stories by Lois

Yes!… Yes?

I have a fascination with graveyards and old memorials and commemorative plaques, not to be morbid but to wonder about past lives. So often there is a story behind the inscription and sometimes little biographical notes tell us something about the person who is being remembered. So wandering in the Kingston Cometary in Portsmouth, I glanced […]

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Food by Lois

Gran’s special cake

I came across a recipe called Gran’s Special Cake: 12 oz flour 8 oz sugar 4 oz butter 8 oz sultanas 2 lightly beaten eggs 1 tsp ground cloves 1 tsp ground caraway 1 tsp ground cinnamon ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a little water rub in butter and flour, stir in sugar, […]

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Writing by Lois

Not that ending!

All through my teaching career, when I had to set imaginative writing tasks for my students I absolutely forbade them to end their stories “… and I woke up and it was all a dream…” I thought that was the most feeble and pathetic ending… and if when I was doing exam marking I had an essay which […]

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